It acts as a "pre-emptive" tax shift. If more people pay taxes there's going to be less pressure on the government to set an ever higher tax rate, because now they receive more money while levying the same amount.
As someone who has lived in socialist countries for a long time... the Government always wants more money until they have it all.
It is as simple as that. "Less pressure" on the Government is a joke. The more it has, the more it wants.
If you give your power away, they take it, and want more. Power 101.
The money will be spent on things like public Media and public education to make propaganda for the Government. And on making the people in power mega rich, just like in China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela or Argentina.
